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I suppose things could have been so dark that the band of light of the Milky Way could be called 'light' for each cycle. Even so, it doesn't seem to stack.
I never heard that before, but the creation of the sun on the 4th day is an oracle of the coming of the Son of God in flesh as the Glory of God, in the 4th millennial "Day". Do a Bible search on the glory and the Light which He alone bears.
He is the "Sun of Righteousness" and the sun itself types Him being the One in whose face the Light of the Glory of the invisible YHWH is seen.
Early premillennialists included Pseudo-Barnabas, Papias, Methodius, Lactantius, Commodianus Theophilus, Tertullian, Melito, Hippolytus of Rome, and Victorinus of Pettau. Many of these theologians and others in the early church expressed their belief in premillennialism through their acceptance of this sexta-septamillennial tradition. This belief claims that human history will continue for 6,000 years and then will enjoy Sabbath for 1,000 years (the millennial kingdom), thus all of human history will have a total of 7,000 years prior to the new creation.
Millennial Day Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Has anyone ever discussed an "octa-millennial" extension of that tradition?
The Septuagint (LXX) dates Creation to approximately 5500 BC. Thus, those early Classical-era Christian writers were apparently expecting a "Rev 19 Second Coming" event around 500 AD, to usher in the Prophesied "Rev 20 Christian Millennium" until around 1500 AD:
“I and others who are right-minded Christians on all points are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built... For Isaiah spoke in that manner concerning this period of a thousand years.”
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (ch. LXXX)
One could compare this with the history of "the city of Constantine", built by the victorious Christian emperor Constantine after witnessing a heavenly sign in the sky, as well as its spectacular Hagia Sophia regarding which emperor Justinian remarked that it outdid even Solomon's original temple. That city, Constantinople, whose name literally means "the city of standing together" (united in harmony), stood until it was taken ouer in the 15th century (Rev 20:3,7 + other alleged Prophesies Sultan Mehmet 'the conqueror' was credited with fulfilling, as it happens).
Afterwards, Christendom has ceaselessly splintered into thousands of apostacizing & dissenting denominations today (cp. Rev 20:7-10).
According to this timeline, the LXX and stated Classical-era Christians' teachings have been substantially vindicated, and humanity now exists in its "eighth (8th) Biblical Day" or octamillennium, of deception, trickery, dissension, apostasy, disunity, discord & disharmony. And, indeed, for 2000 years, Christians have attributed the mystical number 888 to Jesus Christ, e.g. in antithesis to the 666 of the anti-Christ. The Christly number derives from "gematria" applied to the original Greek spelling of Jesus' name, in a manner identical to deriving 666 from the name of the pagan emperor Nero:
IESOUS = 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200 = 888
The end of the "8th Biblical Day" would be about the year 2500 AD. So perhaps the Great White Throne of Judgement (Rev 20:11) could be Prophetically "implied" to arrive around that time, towards the middle of the 3rd millennium AD ?
To truly understand what these early Christians believed, we need to examine the time at which they expected these things to take place. Barnabas said:Well, it's just a question, really.
I do think that Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and other Classical-era Christians really did, as they seemingly wrote, believe in a sexta-/septa-millennial interpretation of Revelations.
Nero = Caesars = 666 = anti-Christian pagan imperial Lords of the 6th Biblical Day (to 500 AD)
Which 6th Biblical Day would end in the expected Christian Millennium of the 7th Biblical Day (to 1500 AD).
That would make the present era the 8th Biblical Day... and Christians have been equating Jesus with 888 for two thousand years... I don't claim to know what it might mean or otherwise.. Just seems significant, being based on Scripture, and ancient Church Traditions.
Note that Hebrew "24 hour days" begin at dusk. Such that the latter half of the 6th Biblical Day (birth of Christ to 500 AD) would have figuratively been the "dawn to dusk" "daytime daylight hours" thereof. Likewise, if the 8th Biblical Day began in the 15th century AD, then 2000 AD -- cp. "Y2K" and "Maya 2012" -- was the "dawn" of the "daylight hours" thereof. That seems possibly significant, because many people apparently perceived powerful spiritual forces at work around the turn of the millennium. So the fact that it would have actually been coincident exactly with the "daybreak of dawn" on the 8th Biblical Day could possibly be actually Spiritually significant.
[QUOTE="yeshuasavedme, post: 63498407, member: 72939"This Covenant in Genesis 15 is the land Covenant, and this is when God said to Abraham that his seed -yet future seed -would return to the land in the fourth generation.] The generations are:
1. Isaac
2. Jacob
3. Levi
4. Moses.
Yep....
I'm sure there are better connections to be drawn but its a start. One things for certain, we appear to be reaching the end of the 6th day.
I have read the book of Jasher and most of the Apocrypha books and they are interesting and informative, but they are not Scripture.Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born, so Abraham was 70 when the promise was given.
Book of Jasher[=history/records of the Patriarchs], chapter 13:
I thought you did excellent job.I have read the book of Jasher and most of the Apocrypha books and they are interesting and informative, but they are not Scripture.
You seem to be confusing the age of Terah; 70 when he fathered Abram.
Why do you feel it necessary to dispute the exact time periods: 2000 Adam to Abraham, 2000 from Abraham to Jesus and now nearly 2000 when Jesus will Return, as I showed in my timeline?
Genesis 17:1-2 Abraham was 99 when the Lord said to him: I will make a Covenant with you.....I only pointed out that Abraham was 70 when the promise was given, which anyone can go backwards from the giving of the Law to the 430 years to see that Abraham was 70
140 X 50 = 7000. But a Jubilee comes every 49 years -as the 50th year and also the first year of the next cycle. If it isn't done like this, then the Sabbath years; every seventh year, get out of kilter.140 Jubilee years for the 7,000 year timeline.
This sounds like something out of a fiction book.And ten weeks of 700 years which Enoch also tells us about, in the parables. He was born "the 7th from Adam, in the first week"- of 700 years. Enoch's dream visions of the totemic imagery of the histories of the nations there are ten weeks of 700 years each. Those weeks have a full "stop" and are not counted during the Gentile Church age, and they begin to be counted again when the Church is raptured, pretrib. Those ten weeks overlap the seventh Millennium and go on into the 8th Day, that Great Day, which is oracled in the Law.
Genesis 14,15, tell us of the time God gave the promise, which was 430 years before the Law.Genesis 17:1-2 Abraham was 99 when the Lord said to him: I will make a Covenant with you.....
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Please read the Word of God on the Jubilee 50th year.140 X 50 = 7000. But a Jubilee comes every 49 years -as the 50th year and also the first year of the next cycle. If it isn't done like this, then the Sabbath years; every seventh year, get out of kilter.
I did, and a Jubilee year is the Fiftieth year AND the first year of the next cycle. Therefore Jubilees come every 49 years.Please read the Word of God on the Jubilee 50th year.
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